Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed on our web site shortly. --- Brendan Jurd wrote: > On 10/4/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now t

Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"

2007-10-03 Thread Brendan Jurd
On 10/4/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now that we've renamed the server binary to "postgres", what is the > > status on use of the name "postmaster"? Is it now deprecated? And if > > not, is there any point in keeping it around? > > We sh

Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"

2007-10-03 Thread Ron Mayer
Brendan Jurd wrote: > Seems it would be best to apply this > nomenclature consistently, and simply drop the name "postmaster" from > use. > +1 I agree the term postmaster references in the docs, etc should go away - with perhaps the exception of one faq that say that postmaster's a deprecated na

Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that we've renamed the server binary to "postgres", what is the > status on use of the name "postmaster"? Is it now deprecated? And if > not, is there any point in keeping it around? I'm certainly not for removing the term from either the code or

[HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"

2007-10-03 Thread Brendan Jurd
Now that we've renamed the server binary to "postgres", what is the status on use of the name "postmaster"? Is it now deprecated? And if not, is there any point in keeping it around? I've come across the occasional reference to "postmaster" in the FAQs and I was thinking that this would confuse